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Suspension of Habeas Corpus in the North during the Civil War
Lincoln used his constitutional powers to silence Confederate sympathizers in the North
Advantages of the North in Civil War
More industry, people, railroads, and food
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed slaves in Confederate states legally; hurt southern war effort; gave a moral cause for the Civil War
Fort Sumter
First battle of the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
Southern military genius
Ulysses S. Grant
Commanding general of Union troops
William T. Sherman
He destroyed Atlanta and led the “March to the Sea”
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy
Antietam
Lee’s failure to win this battle encouraged Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
After this, Lee gave up trying to invade the Union
Vicksburg
Grant gained control of the Mississippi River
Battle of Atlanta
Disrupted Southern supplies, destroyed manufacturing center
Gettysburg Address
Convinced the nation that the US was one indivisible nation
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
“With malice toward none”- urged no revenge toward Southern States
Presidential Reconstruction
Urged no revenge on the South after the Civil War
Radical Republican Reconstruction
Made South pass reconstruction amendments
13th amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States
14th amendment
Have citizenship (due process and equal treatment) to anyone born in the US (including freed slaves)
15th amendment
Gave freed slaves voting rights
Morehouse College
African- American university started in Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau
Helped freed slaves transition to a new life- provided food, jobs, schools, helped find families
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Radicals tried to get Johnson out of office because he vetoed laws to help African American Southerners
Black Codes
Controlled the lives of newly freed slaves
Compromise of 1877
Led to end of Reconstruction
1876 presidential election
Contested (no clear winner) election between Hayes and Tilden, led to compromise of 1877
